Making an American Workforce

Making an American Workforce
Author: Fawn-Amber Montoya
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1492012580

Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the policies of the early years of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, Making an American Workforce explores John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s welfare capitalist programs and their effects on the company's diverse workforce. Focusing on the workers themselves—men, women, and children representative of a variety of immigrant and ethnic groups—contributors trace the emergence of the Employee Representation Plan, the work of the company's Sociology Department, and CF&I's interactions with the YMCA in the early twentieth century. They examine CF&I's early commitment to Americanize its immigrant employees and shape worker behavior, the development of policies that constructed the workforce it envisioned while simultaneously laying the groundwork for the strike that eventually led to the Ludlow Massacre, and the impact of the massacre on the employees, the company, and beyond. Making an American Workforce provides greater insight into the repercussions of the Industrial Representation Plan and the Ludlow Massacre, revealing the long-term consequences of Colorado Fuel and Iron Company policies on the American worker, the state of Colorado, and the creation of corporate culture. Making an American Workforce will be of interest to Western, labor, and business historians.

Making an American Workforce

Making an American Workforce
Author: Fawn-Amber Montoya
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2014-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1607323109

Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the policies of the early years of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, Making an American Workforce explores John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s welfare capitalist programs and their effects on the company's diverse workforce. Focusing on the workers themselves—men, women, and children representative of a variety of immigrant and ethnic groups—contributors trace the emergence of the Employee Representation Plan, the work of the company's Sociology Department, and CF&I's interactions with the YMCA in the early twentieth century. They examine CF&I's early commitment to Americanize its immigrant employees and shape worker behavior, the development of policies that constructed the workforce it envisioned while simultaneously laying the groundwork for the strike that eventually led to the Ludlow Massacre, and the impact of the massacre on the employees, the company, and beyond. Making an American Workforce provides greater insight into the repercussions of the Industrial Representation Plan and the Ludlow Massacre, revealing the long-term consequences of Colorado Fuel and Iron Company policies on the American worker, the state of Colorado, and the creation of corporate culture. Making an American Workforce will be of interest to Western, labor, and business historians.

Building America's Skilled Technical Workforce

Building America's Skilled Technical Workforce
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2017-06-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0309440068

Skilled technical occupationsâ€"defined as occupations that require a high level of knowledge in a technical domain but do not require a bachelor's degree for entryâ€"are a key component of the U.S. economy. In response to globalization and advances in science and technology, American firms are demanding workers with greater proficiency in literacy and numeracy, as well as strong interpersonal, technical, and problem-solving skills. However, employer surveys and industry and government reports have raised concerns that the nation may not have an adequate supply of skilled technical workers to achieve its competitiveness and economic growth objectives. In response to the broader need for policy information and advice, Building America's Skilled Technical Workforce examines the coverage, effectiveness, flexibility, and coordination of the policies and various programs that prepare Americans for skilled technical jobs. This report provides action-oriented recommendations for improving the American system of technical education, training, and certification.

The American Workforce Trinity

The American Workforce Trinity
Author: Carter Hughes
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-04-04
Genre:
ISBN:

The American Workforce Trinity is the value packed offering brought to you by national Workforce Development Subject Matter Expert, Carter Hughes. Mr. Hughes has reached back into his decades of experience serving the community and assisting employers and careerseekers, to provide a value packed Toolbook that can serve as a very understandable roadmap for anyone seeking to establish a long and prosperous career in America. The American Workforce Trinity gives the reader three guiding principles that will allow the reader to grow and contribute in a meaningful way in the American workforce. The author provides guidance that gives the reader a better understanding of how organizations are designed to serve the public, and how they can use this knowledge to increase personal value in the workplace. The reader is challenged to root their work performance in service, and actively move toward the opportunities that come. If you do not know your organization's mission, you cannot truly be effective. If you do not know the value of your role to the public, you cannot truly be effective. If you are not willing to learn, you are unlikely to see significant increases in compensation. This Toolbook explores principles such as 'Know Your Job Well Enough to Explain it to a Child', which is a guide to how to gain an understanding of your occupation that you can simply explain. Parables, facts, and good ole common sense are used to convey the importance of understanding and accepting the value of growth and contribution to experiencing significant growth in your value in your occupation. The reader is given 3 guiding principles that simplify what the focus should be going forward. The author provides anchoring principles that will help the reader decide what to focus on as they travel through their professional journey in this American workforce. The Toolbook actively captures the reader with its both challenging and encouraging tone at times. There is currently an abundance of opportunity in the American workforce, and earning $100,00 per year or more is a lot closer than it seems for any of us. The American Workforce Trinity provides the reader with the roadmap that can unlock the doors to the success we all seek, if these principles are used for at least 12 months. Take advantage of this opportunity to establish a clear approach to your professional career in this opportunity-filled American workforce.

A Nation at Work

A Nation at Work
Author: Herbert A. Schaffner
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 478
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780813531892

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Workforce Education

Workforce Education
Author: William B. Bonvillian
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2021-02-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0262361477

A roadmap for how we can rebuild America's working class by transforming workforce education and training. The American dream promised that if you worked hard, you could move up, with well-paying working-class jobs providing a gateway to an ever-growing middle class. Today, however, we have increasing inequality, not economic convergence. Technological advances are putting quality jobs out of reach for workers who lack the proper skills and training. In Workforce Education, William Bonvillian and Sanjay Sarma offer a roadmap for rebuilding America's working class. They argue that we need to train more workers more quickly, and they describe innovative methods of workforce education that are being developed across the country.

Growing Fairly

Growing Fairly
Author: Stephen Goldsmith
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2022-02-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0815739494

Tested, practical ideas to meet current and future skilling needs of both workers and employers The labor market in the United States faces seemingly contradictory challenges: Many employers have trouble finding qualified applicants for current and future jobs, while millions of Americans are out of work or are underemployed—their paths to living-wage jobs blocked by systemic barriers or lack of adequate skills. Growing Fairly offers workforce development reforms that meet the needs of both workers and employers. Based on the experiences of hundreds of leaders and workers, the authors set out ten principles for designing a more effective and equitable system that helps workers obtain the skills necessary for economic mobility. The principles outlined in the book argue for a more comprehensive view of the skilling needs of current and prospective workers. They spell out the attributes of effective programs and make the case for skill-based hiring, widely distributed performance data, and collaboration. The book emphasizes the importance of local action to overcome the structural barriers that challenge even the most determined would-be learners. Growing Fairly shows cross sector leaders how to work across organizational boundaries to change the trajectory of individuals struggling to make a living wage. This is not a book of untested theories. Instead, it is written by practitioners for practitioners. Much of it is told through the voices of those who run programs and people who have taken advantage of them. While the issues the book addresses are profound, its take on the subject is optimistic. Between them, the authors have spent decades searching out and supporting effective practices. Even more critically, they have learned how to knit competing agencies and organizations into cohesive systems with coordinated missions. Their practical ideas will benefit a wide range of readers, from practitioners in the field to students and scholars of the American labor system.

Building a Workforce Investment System for America

Building a Workforce Investment System for America
Author: Lloyd Feldman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 76
Release: 1992
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

With the United States' choice for future employment being "high skills or low wages," the challenge to business and industry is to build, in partnership with public agencies, a cohesive management system that would invest in three critical areas of the work force: building a strong foundation of basic skills to help noncollege-bound youth enter the work force; providing continuing education and training for workers; and building a better "second chance" training and education system for working-age youth and adults who face special barriers to employment. To meet this challenge, the National Alliance of Business (NAB) proposes that business and government in each state and local community develop a "work force investment system" that links existing training and education institutions in an effective partnership to build a highly skilled, high performance labor force. If such a system is to be real and permanent, it should be built on guiding principles such as ease of access, broad inclusiveness, public-private partnership, market base, and concerted action at the national, state, and local levels. A proposed work force investment system model for the future couples delivery system reform with a broader role in the labor market for that system. Such a system would be characterized by a common point or points of intake, individualized assessment of clients to determine their service needs, a form of case management to see participants through the system, and a common system of placement that employers could readily access. Present federal and federal-state programs could be integrated into such a program, and local businesses would take the initiative to structure local solutions to problems confronting the mainstream work force. This model is appropriate and could be attainable for the U.S. labor market. (This report describes several state work force investment systems and local programs as well as the Training and Enterprise Councils system in Great Britain.) (KC)

Workforce 2020

Workforce 2020
Author: Richard W. Judy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1997
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This new book examines the trends that shape the economy and workforce, and combines them into a unique and fresh body of analysis; setting the record straight on the demographic makeup of the workforce in the years 2000 to 2020 and challenging the conventional wisdom on trends affecting American workers and employers.